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Artesanías de Chile
The nonprofit Artesanías de Chile was launched a decade ago by Luisa Durán, the wife of former President Ricardo Lagos. The fair-trade organization sells extraordinarily well-made arts and crafts by some of the most skilled artisans from all of Chile....
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Barrio Italia
The antique and the chic converge in Barrio Italia, where design-oriented shopping galleries are interspersed with refurbished furniture stores and beautiful old family homes. The charming neighborhood, which was saved by fashionable entrepreneurs who stymied the lean toward industrialization, is...
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Faba Artesanía Fina
Chile is the land of lapis lazuli, and Faba is the place to buy it. This family-run business, now in its third generation, sells jewelry and decorative items made predominantly of sterling silver and the emblematic blue stone, which is...
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Los Domínicos
Designed to resemble a colonial village, this walled-in shopping center is a rabbit's warren of tiny shops selling all manner of Chilean crafts, woolens, clothing, wooden toys and jewelry. The setting makes for a quiet, enjoyable ambiance to lose yourself...
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Ona
This two-story yet miniscule store next to the Cerro Santa Lucia is one of the best purveyors of Chilean fine arts and crafts, with beautiful jewelry, sculptures, carved wooden plates and utensils, hand-knit sweaters and shawls and ceramics. The items...
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Parque Arauco Design Center & Luxury Center
Parque Arauco is a hodge-podge shopping mall (close to the Grand Hyatt and across Ave. Kennedy and the Alonso de Córdoba shopping area) that looks like it was built in a dozen stages, and it was. The newest add-on is...
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Patio Bellavista
Patio Bellavista is a lively complex of restaurants and souvenir stands in the heart of the Bellavista neighborhood, and its convenience makes it a good place to buy gifts. There are dozens of arts and crafts shops (some better than...
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Pura
At Pura, traditional artisanal garments and objects are elevated to pieces of wearable art. Each item is a product of time-tested handicraft techniques updated with an eye to contemporary design. The shop sells clothing, home décor, toys, travel accessories and...
Santiago

Faba Artensia
Santiago’s chicest residents hit Alonso de Córdova street in Vitacura for big-name shops and trendy South American labels including La Dolfina, owned by Argentine polo player Adolfo Cambiaso, who creates casual and elegant polo-inspired clothing for men; Maria Vasquez, a former Argentine model-turned-designer (who is married to Adolfo Cambiaso); Juana de Arco, offering colorful, handcrafted knit alpaca sweaters, lingerie and more; Tiendas Tres, the flirty, feminine womenswear collections of three Argentine designers under one roof; and Chilean standouts purveying locally crafted clothing, accessories and home-design pieces. Within the area is the city’s concentration of art galleries, including Animal, Isabel Aninat, Patricia Ready, and AMS Marlborough. Don’t miss such top Santiago shops as Pura, Color Tierra, Faba Artesanía Fina, Ruben Campos and Andrés Alsina. The Alonso de Cordova shopping area now has competition however with the recent opening of the Parque Arauco Design & Luxury Center, selling upmarket and designer clothing and goods.